Ex-boyfriend charged with soliciting killing Alleged to have tried to get chiropractor to kill Glenview woman

As police work to solve a brutal double homicide in suburbanGlenview this week, the ex-boyfriend of one of the victims wascharged Thursday with soliciting a Chicago chiropractor months ago tokill the woman.

But in charging Steven Zirko, authorities would not say whetherthe unnamed chiropractor he approached last summer had anything to dowith the slayings of Zirko's ex-girlfriend, Mary Lacey, 38, and hermother Margaret "Dolly" Ballog, 60. Zirko has not been charged withthe murders.

Zirko, 42, of 5608 N. Richmond on the Northwest Side, is expectedto appear in bond court in Skokie today, said John Gorman, aspokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's …